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American History: Essays: The Iron Horse: Land Departments and Immigration

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From a lengthy essay on the history of the railroad in the United States. This section describes what the Land Department and the Bureau of Immigration did in order to attract new immigrants to settle along the railroad line. The attractiveness of the American West was often exaggerated to the extreme.

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railroad history, railroad land grants, settling the west, bureau of immigration, revolution to reconstruction: the iron horse: land departments and immigration, attracting immigrants, attracting settlers
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